When the Code Host Becomes the Single Point of Failure
For eighteen years, Mitchell Hashimoto opened GitHub every single day. He built his career practically inside it, joked as a 20-year-old that maybe the company would hire him if his open-source project was good enough, and treated the platform the way most of us treat electricity — a utility so reliable it disappeared into the background. Then, in April 2026, he announced he was moving his terminal emulator project, Ghostty, off GitHub entirely. “I want to ship software and it doesn’t want me to ship software,” he wrote. That sentence, more than any ideological complaint, is the real story here — and it’s a story about infrastructure, not politics.
